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RSA: The Pwn Pad is an Android Tablet-Based Penetration Tester (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the use-this-device-for-good-and-never-for-evil dept.

Last year Pwnie Express showed us their Stealthy Pen Test Unit that plugged directly into a 115 VAC wall outlet. This year at RSA they're proudly displaying their Pwn Pad, which is a highly-modified (and rooted) Nexus 7 tablet "which provides professionals an unprecedented ease of use in evaluating wired and wireless networks." They list its core features as Android OS 4.2 and Ubuntu 12.04; large screen, powerful battery; OSS-based pentester toolkit; and long range wireless packet injection. If you can't see the video (or want to read along) the transcript is below.

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  1. Pwn Pad Passes Perl Philter Phor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Duplicates

  2. Nice Tablet by jackb_guppy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I good see the hardware/software is flexable - even in these days of walled gardens.

    My wife just got me a TP adapter, so I now have a net project to look forward too.

  3. Re:Not Really Revolutionary by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They don't claim it's revolutionary. Also the integration and pre-configuration is very important to many people who would be interested in such a product. Much more so than your dimissive comment would make it seem. Sure, one could buy all the parts separately, recompile the kernel and all the software and put it tall together hemselves. On the other hand, most people's time is not worthless so the price is worth the fact that one can be up and running immediately.